Defence Secretary commissions 60 ton slipway at Northern Naval
Command
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa alone with Chief of Defence
Staff, the Army Commander, Inspector General of Police and other VIPs
visited the Northern Naval Command Headquarters at Kankasanthurai on
April 29. He was received by Navy Commander Vice Admiral Thisara
Samarasinghe and Northern Naval Area Commander Rear Admiral Susith
Weerasekara. The Defence Secretary had opened of the 60 ton slipway
which had been designed and constructed by the engineers and the divers
of the Sri Lanka Navy.
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Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Navy Commander Vice
Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe at the commissioning of the slipway |
The slipway is capable of undertaking the routine underwater
maintenance of vessels up to 60 tons.
This new slipway will share the routine underwater maintenance jobs
of Naval vessels done by the slipways at Trincomalee and Galle.
Although the estimated cost for constructing this type of slipway is
Rs. 120 million, the Navy was able to save a huge capital of government
expenditure by constructing the slipway, using only their own technology
and the manpower, at a cost of around Rs. 39 million.
In the evening the Defence Secretary worshipped the historical
Nagadeepa Viharaya. He discussed the future development plans of the
temple with Chief Incumbent and the Chief Sanganayake Thera of the
Northern Province Ven. Navandagala Padumakithti Tissa Thera. He also met
devotees at Nagadeepa temple.
He observed the Navy’s involvement in providing the pilgrims with
welfare facilities too. |
